2nd hard drive. what should go where?

[spoonie g]

ok, I have 2 hard drives in my comp. now. what goes where? does my os and audio editor go on the same drive? should I just put all of my music files on the second drive?

 

[Carter]

ok, I have 2 hard drives in my comp. now. what goes where? does my os and audio editor go on the same drive? should I just put all of my music files on the second drive?

OS and music software - drive 1
music files - drive 2

 

[bennychico11]

i'd say music software and all audio related material on the second drive. so everything is read on one drive when you're doing audio work

 

[Raw-Tracks]

Standard procedure is to put O/S and ALL Applications on the primary hard drive, and alll audio files on the second hard drive.

 

[lpdeluxe]

Ditto. What you are trying to accomplish is not merely to segregate music from purer pursuits but to set up a drive where your recording and playback will not be interrupted by the activity of the software. In other words, you should have a system drive, including all the programs, and another drive that acts as a storage place for the audio.

 

[crankz1]

The only other thing you may want to consider putting on the 2nd drive besides the actual audio data would be audio samples, if you use a sampler that streams the samples from disk instead of loading to memory.
Other than that .... yes OS and all programs (including plugin directory) go on drive one.

 

[Ethan Winer]

Sppoons,

> I have 2 hard drives in my comp. now. what goes where? <

For the complete story see my three-part series from Keyboard magazine, 5th in the list on my Articles page:

www.ethanwiner.com/articles.html

The first part explains a lot about using multiple hard drives, but you'll probably find the other parts useful too.

--Ethan

 

[spoonie g]

thanks a lot. I previously was using a single hard drive for all of my work, but it died. I figured that 2 would handle the load a lot more easily, but wanted make sure exactly what I was doing.